I enjoy my job enough to stick around. - Senior Laboratory Technician UL Solutions Employee Review

2.0
Jun 5, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Work/life balance is decent depending on the roll. - Amount of positions and departments creates opportunities to move around. - Vacation days on par with other large companies. - Up to nine sick days per calendar year. - 401k match is good. - Health insurance is good. - Beautiful campus. - Great history and mission.

Cons

- Pay. This is by far the biggest gripe in a laboratory position. UL claims they offer competitive pay, but if that were the case, the turnover wouldn't be so high. - Promotions are few and far between. - Bonuses were reduced for the people who could use it most. Executives tried to pass a new pay mix as a great thing, but a simple excel spreadsheet proves this idea falls flat on its face, and frankly, it's insulting. - Top heavy: Manager on top of manager. - Too many tenured engineers are useless and not held accountable. - No clear direction. Ask 20 people what the new strategy is, and you will get 20 different answers.

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5.0
Jun 16, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good manager, supportive immediate teams

Cons

Aggressive sales goals each year

3.0
Jun 24, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Mission - Work life balance - Pay - Modernization of the workplace

Cons

- Every year benefits are reduced with terrible and tone deaf justifications. - Added benefits tend only to benefit new employees. - Perception that the company does not value long term employees (suspension of defined benefit program) - Poor ESPP discount - Lack of transparency on how AEIP bonus is calculated - Workflow tools are still extremely cumbersome after years of promises to fix them - Lack of enforcement of hybrid work policy. Many people never come in and are never spoken to about it.

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